Cricketers’ union says no to CA pay offer
melbourne — The union representing Australian cricketers has rejected a pay offer from Cricket Australia which would guarantee a 35 per cent increase in player remuneration over the next five years.
The Australian Cricketers’ Association on Friday said the offer would create inequity between international and domestic players and short-changed women.
Under the new proposal, Cricket Australia would take 55 per cent of all revenues to run the game while players and grassroots cricket would both receive 22.5 per cent.
According to Cricket Australia, though, the offer would see average base salaries paid to members of Australia’s women’s team would immediately more than double to $134,000 — and an estimated average of 210,000 $158,000 by 2021.
The sport’s national governing body said the total remuneration for all players was
it is unfair for Ca to create a situation, via its offer, that some players playing in a domestic team enjoy revenue share and others do not ACA statement
expected to increase 35 per cent to $314 million for players over the 2017-22 period. The average annual income for men representing Australia was expected to increase 25 per cent to $1.1 million by 202122. But the union objects to a proposal to change the pay structure, based on a revenuesharing model. The new system restricts that to only the top international men’s players. “CA’s proposal denies female cricketers the opportunity to share in the games’ revenue,” the ACA said. —